Sentence examples for uneasy backdrop from inspiring English sources

Of course, that vacuous middle ground is an uneasy backdrop for this final homestand, straddling the belief that there will be postseason life and the reality that it may be now or never for goodbyes.

This was the uneasy backdrop for Mr. Tenet's efforts today and for those of another American emissary, William J. Burns, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs.

Wheezing keyboards and nervy guitar plucks set an uneasy, almost paranoid, backdrop to Liddiard's lyrics, in which one by one he picks up the obsessions of tabloid media – Anzackery, MasterChef, mining booms, paedophiles and class warfare – and rejects them, emphatic as smashing plates.

Set against the backdrop of the uneasy transition in moviedom from silent pictures to the talkies, the Gene Kelly film has spawned multiple stage versions on both sides of the Atlantic, of which the director Jonathan Church's current incarnation is by some measure the best of the three that I have seen.

With the Spanish civil war as its main backdrop, the narrative is an uneasy, sometimes awkward, merging of fact and fiction, and will almost certainly offend the many guardians of both Capa and Taro's reputations just as it will no doubt entrance the mainstream cinema-going audience should it be made into a Hollywood film.

And even as the sleep-deprived and emotionally spent Hornets leaned on their pride and memories of Phills and turned the game into a tight finish, a reverent Knick crowd provided only a faint backdrop of cheers on an uneasy night.

"Native Speaker" examines the uneasy assimilation of a young Korean-American, Henry Park, against the backdrop of a culturally diverse New York whose identity politics are becoming more fragmented.

All this comes against the backdrop of "House and Senate members in both parties" becoming "increasingly uneasy".

After all, despite the uneasy, increasingly desperate mood-state described in "The Bell Jar," the first part of the novel is set against a backdrop of big-city glamour.

The relationship between the camera and the diplomat, against the backdrop of some of Europe's greatest works of art, reveals the main theme of the film, Russia's uneasy link to its past and to Europe.In this section Giving account Before there were departments Who's afraid of the new science?

Backdrop: Nightmarish.